The bright, warm, and most importantly, sunny, weather should just about last the bank holiday weekend.
"The high pressure that brought us the glorious weather of the past week is retreating eastwards towards Scandinavia," Ms Deirdre Lowe of Met Eireann said yesterday. "It is going to be mainly warm, bright and sunny, though it will be a bit of a mixed bag."
Today, Ms Lowe projects, "it will be a lot duller in the west with the risk of drizzle and even the occasional shower," said Ms Lowe. "But it will be warm," she added, "with temperatures continuing to reach into the low 20s".
Tomorrow the east is likely to see the best of the weather and there will be bright periods and hazy sunshine over Leinster and parts of Munster. It will be warm and close , though cloudy and drizzly in the west and south.
Sunday, says Ms Lowe, will see the dreaded low pressure moving in across the country with rain and a fall in temperatures. By Tuesday, however, Ms Lowe says the weather will be "really bad" with "a lot of heavy rain".
